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The problem with building your own private cloud for this is that every part of it will still use US components in some fashion. Hardware, OS, networking, everything has US sourced materials or software.

Even if you ran a bunch of RISC-V processors on custom motherboards and linked with Huawei networking gear, youâ(TM)re probably using an OS with code from GNU or BSD. The chips on that networking gear? Broadcom, something ARM based.

You simply cannot decouple yourself from US products completely in 2026. That is just the plain reality. So, what is the end game here, what does the EU consider sovereign enough?

As you said, Linux distros and Postgres both heavily rely on US code. Even Linus has been a US citizen for over a decade now.

Almost all modern hardware those clouds run on, from compute to storage to networking, also rely on US code.

When you think of actual, true, real alternatives that can be used today, every single one of them will have some sort of dependency on the US. Even the homegrown platforms in China, which are already lightyears ahead of EU offerings, remain heavily dependent on US tech. It is just a reality of the globalized market.

So at what level do you actually consider yourself completely sovereign in this realm? The reality is, the EU cannot be at this point in time. Realistically, even decades from now seems highly unlikely, even if they actually made a decent initiative at trying.

Those private clouds are still going to be running at least some US software. If the stated goal is overall EU sovereignty over their data, that is not going to happen anytime soon.

You kind of need actual viable alternatives if you want to migrate off something. And I do not see anything EU-centric that would stand as a replacement for Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle or Microsoft at the moment.

Sounds like one of those half-baked AI deals that they announced one year ago - not serious at all, just enough to earmark some money for some companies linked to the politicians passing these directives.

Look, the VMWare debacle was one thing, but you should not aim to replace any already modern systems with IBM products in 2026.

If not for the obvious technological reasons, just look at how IBM has been run the last few years.

Who could have ever predicted this outcome?

Just like with their former dependency on Russian energy only a few years ago, Europe once again finds itself incapable or unwilling to mitigate risk in the same sector. Shocking.

Probably should buy some Apple stock

I am certain Microsoft sabotaged their own products way more than anything else with their CoPilot shenanigans.

Just offer all the Neo buyers the option to purchase a refurbished base model M4 Air for the same price. Might cut the backlog a bit.

These were humans that laid other humans off. End of story.

We all know a Patch Tuesday is going to accidentally reverse them back into Electron-based PWAs eventually

Bluesky is already a monolith of a certain viewpoint, these tools cannot possibly change that experience any.